In this edition of “Ask the Industry Analyst,” we sit down with Howard Dresner , Chief Research Officer of Dresner Advisory Services , and a well-known authority and author in the areas of Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM).
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In 2011, research from CMOs , CIOs and CFOs all ranked Business Analytics as a key area of technology investment to help drive business and uncover hidden insights in the explosion of data sources.
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Guest post from David Pugh, Program Director, Product Management, IBM Business Analytics
I really love speaking to customers who are pushing our software to its limits. Those customers who are at the bleeding edge... [Continue Reading]

Food trucks are the latest trend in the United States.
They’ve become a culinary staple in most major cities across the country. In fact, there is a sweet temptress called Flirty Cupcakes that is often parked outside the IBM offices... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Erick Brethenoux, Executive Program Director, Worldwide Predictive Analytics at IBM
In 1978, an emotional and dramatic award-winning documentary film was released titled “Scared Straight!” It profiled troubled teens who were taken into... [Continue Reading]

A few months ago, there was some interesting debate between two industry analysts, Bruce Temkin and Esteban Kolsky , whether Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) was dead.
And even before this, Leslie Ament from Hypatia Research echoed a similar... [Continue Reading]

In the recently released feature documentary, Chasing Madoff , Harry Markopolos , the lead investigator who helped uncover the infamous $65 billion Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, said it took him five minutes to figure it out.
If it were only that easy for all organizations to identify fraud and reduce... [Continue Reading]

Statistics are persuasive. They validate a truth or dispel rumors and lies. They create the basis for important decisions. They make us smarter.
When British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli uttered, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and... [Continue Reading]

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